Route Planning page column data

Started by greenblood44, April 27, 2023, 12:25:30 PM

greenblood44

Is there a way to display the "Estimated passenger demand (~690 passengers / day)" and the "Estimated cargo demand ~12790 kg / day" in the columns when you are doing route planning to open a new route? Having it available here would save on opening new pages to get that info is why I ask. DTW to ATL example used

DanDan

Quote from: greenblood44 on April 27, 2023, 12:25:30 PM
Is there a way to display the "Estimated passenger demand (~690 passengers / day)" and the "Estimated cargo demand ~12790 kg / day" in the columns when you are doing route planning to open a new route? Having it available here would save on opening new pages to get that info is why I ask. DTW to ATL example used

Would save millions of refreshes i do for route planning!


Continental Sky

It was already proposed a while ago:

https://www.airwaysim.com/forum/index.php/topic,88944.0.html

It was also discussed in that famous topic "Is AWS dying", and there was this opinion, demand is not displayed because it is more exciting to have to scroll dozen of pages and click hundreds of airports to chase the proper one:

Quote from: groundbum2 on December 26, 2021, 02:00:41 PM
I think this is fairly deliberate, if the big fat juicy routes were presented first then it would take out a lot of the "hunting" in a game. Since the demand is largely static, a lot of players record these numbers to spreadsheets etc, then can use these to find the juicy worms.

Simon

I replied to that post and I still think the same; and it is one of the reasons I lost interest in AWS fairly quickly - you spend more time clicking around for tedious tasks than thinking about strategy.

If you go through feature requests forum, there are numerous good ideas to improve the interface, majority of them were not replied, let alone considered for implementation. One of the most striking one for me was that you need to re-schedule the planes after conversion. I did it with hundreds of DC-8 and it's surely not something I wish to do again, it barely adds anything to game strategy, unless acquiring a dozen of spare aircraft and moving schedules back and forth can be considered a strategy - it's physical work, click, click, click thousands of times.

On topic, the workaround I found for this issue was "Open Multiple URLs" Firefox addon; it allows to open all 30 routes with a single click in separate tabs; then I go to the last one and keep fingers over Ctrl+W and close them one by one, except the ones that look attractive. I say I go to the last tab, because when I close it, the last remaining one becomes visible, so I don't have to change the focus, I just keep closing them, but it depends on your settings "When I close the tab, focus on...".